What Sun Was Trying to Do with Open Solaris Apr 25, 2008, 21 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (3628 reads) (Other stories by Ted T'so)
"I was recently checking to see what, if any follow-up there had been from Sun's ham-handed handling of the Open Solaris Trademark, and I ran across this very interesting comment from John Plocher's Candidate Statement for the Open Solaris Governing Board:
"'I also think there was a misunderstanding about what Sun desired when it launched the community (in part) to encourage developers to adopt and use Solaris. My take is that, while there *is* value in getting more kernel, driver and utility developers contributing to and porting the (open) Solaris operating system, there is significantly *more* value in having a whole undivided ecosystem based on a compatible set of distributions, where application developers, university students, custom distro builders and users are all able to take advantage of each other's work..."
